Tag Archives: SRC

September 2017 Dailynation; The Council of Governors has maintained that county bosses will sack all nurses who have not resumed duty and advertise their positions. The CoG has described the nurses’ strike as illegal and unprotected. In a statement issued Sunday, CoG chairman Josphat Nanok said the Employment and Labour …

September 2017 BusinessDaily; Crisis in the public health sector deepened Friday after clinical officers went on a nationwide strike over delayed salaries, unpaid internship and “unfair” job evaluation by the Salaries and Remunerations Commission (SRC). The officers had given county governments a 10-day ultimatum last week to pay their outstanding …

August 2017 DailyNation; Governors have given nurses a week to return to work or face sacking. They described the industrial action as illegal. The decision, announced by Council of Governors (CoG) chairman Josphat Nanok, was agreed on by the county bosses on Thursday. The governors’ meeting was the climax of …

June 2017 Dailynation; The nationwide nurses’ strike entered it fourth day today, with union officials’ date with Labour Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie bouncing. Representatives of the health workers were scheduled to meet with Mrs Kandie in Nairobi on condition that they talk about their Collective Bargaining Agreement and not the trade …

June 2017 Dailynation; One person died after he was turned away from a hospital on Monday, as the health sector was thrown into a crisis after the Salaries and Remuneration Commission rejected a new pay agreement for nurses, which had been negotiated by the Council of Governors. Nurses in public hospitals …

February 2017 DailyNation; The deal struck between the doctors’ union and the government in 2013 was fraudulent, therefore making it untenable. A former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Public Sanitation, Mr Mark Bor, told the National Assembly’s joint committee on health and labour he signed the Collective Bargaining Agreement …

January 2017 DailyNation; Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu on Friday directed that medicines in public health facilities shut down due to the ongoing doctors’ strike be redistributed to faith-based hospitals currently serving Kenyans. In a press briefing in Nairobi, Dr Mailu said the impact of the health workers’ strike, which …

January 2017 CapitalFM; Striking doctors have rejected a Sh4 billion offer by the government saying that the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed in 2013 forms the basis of their industrial action. Speaking after a National Advisory Council meeting Friday morning, the doctors stated that the issue of discussion is neither …